Quotes
The phrases he is saying are so deep and so correct,
Soloviov said
Essentially, this is President Trump surrendering to the Russians,
Reed said
Standing here and saying, ‘You’re good, you’re bad; you’re a dictator, you’re not a dictator; you invaded, you didn’t’, it’s not useful, it’s not productive. So President Trump isn’t getting drawn into that in unnecessary ways and as a result, we’re closer to peace than ever before,
Hegseth addedDoes all the finger-pointing and pearl clutching make peace more likely? That’s the enduring question the president is asking. He wants peace, and if that’s the case, you’ve got to stare down the Russians, and Vladimir Putin, and who they’ve chosen to negotiate and have earnest conversations about difficult things,
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President Trump’s peace through strength America First diplomacy effectively deterred Russia in his first term, and this war would have never started if he had never left office,
said the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in an email to the Wall Street JournalI don’t plan to stay in power for decades
he addedThere were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining Nato
he saidIf, to achieve peace, you really need me to give up my post, I’m ready. I can exchange it for Nato [membership]
he saidThe war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked,
he added later in his answer
I think that President Putin and President Zelenskyy are going to have to get together, because you know what? We want to stop killing millions of people,
Trump respondedDeals only work, Jake, when they’re good for all the parties and that’s that’s the pathway that we’re on here.”
He added
I think Putin's place is not at the negotiating table, as some propose now, but in these prison clothes, standing in the dock at the Hague Tribunal,
Bubnys told reporters on Sunday
Today, at the risk of their lives and with courage, they are resolutely defending their homeland, national interests and Russia's future,
Putin said in a video released by the Kremlin
We must do our best to achieve a lasting and just peace for Ukraine. This is possible with the unity of all partners: we need the strength of the whole of Europe, the strength of America, the strength of all those who want lasting peace,
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Zelenskyy makes inappropriate remarks addressed to the head of state. He does it repeatedly,
Peskov said SundayFate willed it so, God willed it so, if I may say so. A mission as difficult as it is honorable — defending Russia — has been placed on our and your shoulders together,
he told servicemen who have fought in UkraineThe people decided to join Russia a long time ago,
he said, referring to Moscow-staged votes in eastern Ukraine held amid the offensive that were slammed as bogus by Kyiv, the West and international monitorsThis is a dialogue between two extraordinary presidents,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state TV on SundayWe will continue to improve the combat capabilities of the army and navy, their combat readiness as an essential component of Russia's security [and] guarantee of its present and future sovereignty,
he said
You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
he fatuously griped